Fred Taylor wrote: > I recently had a trip to the emergency room for what turned out to be kidney > stones. Time spent in the emergency room, 3 hours. Bill was over $10K. A > few days later, another trip to an emergency room and 2 days in the > hospital. Bill was $15K. When the smoke clears away and all the > miscellaneous bills finish trickling in, the total for this will be about > $28K. Even with a supposedly good health insurance, my out of pocket is > about $7500. For that amount of money, I would have expected to have been > brought back from the dead 2 or 3 times, at least. ;\
Wow...I'll say! Do you think nationalized healthcare would prevent this kind of bill? I think many would agree that the current rates they charge are completely outrageous. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
